Jazz Articles about Olavi Louhivuori

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Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox

Read "Blooming Tall Phlox" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
January 23, 2017

For this quintet outing, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff is joined by Verneri Pohjola on trumpet and flugelhorn, Panu Savolainen on vibraphone, Antti Lotjonen on double bass, and Olavi Louhivuori on drums and percussion. Together they move through a sequence of 15 originals that feel less composed than remembered, as though the music were lifted from the air itself and gently given form. What emerges is a cabinet of scents, each one opened with care, each one releasing its own ...

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Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox

Read "Blooming Tall Phlox" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
January 23, 2017

You can look up the phlox flower online: there are 67 species, many of them fragrant. But none of the photographs or botanical classifications will tell you how it smells. For that we have pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff's musical impressions here, along with a range of other smells recalled from her Russian childhood. When Eckemoff visited Finland and saw how much it reminded her of Russia she decided it was the best place to record an album about her Russian aroma ...

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Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox

Read "Blooming Tall Phlox" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 16, 2016

While the art of playing jazz qualifies as a multisensory experience, involving listening, touching, and seeing, it usually doesn't extend so far as to include the sense of smell. But that's not to say that a nose for scents has no place in musical and artistic spheres. If you need convincing, just look at Blooming Tall Phlox. For her tenth album in six years, pianist Yelena Eckemoff uses life and nature's bouquets as her muse. Her memory ...

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Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon

by John Kelman
July 29, 2016

It's no news to learn that we're the confluence of our many experiences: life, love, music....everything that we are comes from where we've been, what we've done, what we've experienced. That said, it doesn't mean that we can't move in completely new directions or try something completely foreign to us. Still, it's almost impossible to do anything--even things that are intentionally new and different--without there being some inescapable links to our past. With Mats Eilertsen's evocative Rubicon, the double bassist ...

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Olavi Trio: Oh, la vie!

Read "Oh, la vie!" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 28, 2016

Trio finnico dalle geometrie ben oliate, oltre che alquanto originali, Olavi gioca molto sulla parola (scritta), oltre che sulla musica (ovviamente suonata), come appare evidente dal titolo di questo suo secondo lavoro, mentre un altro elemento che colpisce è il fatto che il trio riunisca musicisti appartenenti a tre diverse generazioni, separati quasi esattamente da vent'anni l'uno dall'altro: settantaquattro per il bassista Hauta-aho, cinquantacinque per il trombonista Hongisto, trentaquattro per il batterista Louhivuori. Per quanto riguarda la ...